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"The eventual new and very big kid on the block is, under all but extreme scenarios, China and, after China, India."

"America's elderly and disabled are cared for by a low-wage and poorly trained workforce. Continuing in this way is in no one's in interest."

Profs. Robert Merton and Simon Johnson join PBS economics correspondent Paul Solman to discuss interest rates and investing.

"If you want to predict the success of a new offering in the marketplace, the most important thing is how different it is."

"Getting workers to actually use the technologies will turn out to be just as important as making sure the systems work in the first place."

"The goal was a pandemic insurance, to make sure that people who were falling through the cracks could pay their bills."

The workplace stresses that have all been amplified in the past two-plus years are going to make performance reviews more stressful.

Economist [Prof.] Daron Acemoglu has suggested that employees in companies run by MBA graduates see their wages fall over a five-year period.

"As a 'secret illness of women,' bad periods are a pervasive drain on the lives of roughly 20 percent of women. Yet, they're rarely discussed."

"MIT and the greater Boston community are a hub for technological, financial, and life sciences innovation."